Zynthian Supported Synth Engines

=Engines:=
 * ZynAddSubFX (Polyphonic Aditive, Substractive, and Pad synthesis) https://github.com/fundamental/zynaddsubfx
 * FluidSynth (SF2 SoundFont Engine) http://www.fluidsynth.org
 * LinuxSampler (SFZ/GIG SoundFont Player) https://www.linuxsampler.org
 * Sfizz (SFZ SoundFont Player) https://sfz.tools/sfizz/
 * setBfree (Hammond B3 electromechanical organ Emulation) https://github.com/pantherb/setBfree
 * Pianoteq (A proprietary Physical Modelling Synth Engine for acoustic and electric pianos, developed by Modartt)
 * Aeolus (Pipe Organ Emulator) https://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linuxaudio/aeolus/
 * Jalv (LV2-plugins as standalone layers) http://blog.zynthian.org/index.php/2018/09/28/new-engine-jalv-lv2-plugins-as-standalone-layers/
 * MOD-HOST & MOD-UI (Plugin Host + Web GUI, developed by ModDevices for the ModDuo device)
 * Pure Data (Visual Programming Language) https://puredata.info

=LV2 Plugins: Synths & Effects=


 * Dexed (Yamaha DX7 emulation)
 * MDA plugins (LV2 port of MDA plugin collection, including ePiano, JX10, DX10 and others)
 * TAL free plugins (Some plugins from Togu Audio Line, including Noize M4k3r and more)
 * DISTRHO Plugins-Ports (A collection of plugins ported to Linux that includes OBXd and others)
 * DISTRHO DPF-Plugins (A plugin collection which includes the Nekobi Bass Monosynth and more)
 * Calf plugins (One of the best free software plugin collection)
 * Helm (Advanced Polyphonic Synthesizer + Arpeggiator)
 * AMSynth (Analog Modelling Synthesizer)
 * Synthv1 (Old School Polyphonic Synthesizer)
 * Padthv1 (Old School Polyphonic Additive Synthesizer)
 * SooperLooper Live looping sampler capable of immediate loop recording, overdubbing,
 * Surge Free & Open source hybrid synthesizer...

Effects
All kind of effects:

we have not a complete list of all synths & effect plugins, but you can take a look to this to get an idea of what is available:

Gallery showing details about each of the MOD plugins

=Supported plugin types= Currently, Zynthian supports only LV2 plugins compiled for RBPi (ARM):


 * LV2 plugins

Here is an unmaintained repository of LV2-plugins for Zynthian: https://github.com/zynthian/zynthian-plugins/tree/master/lv2

Support for VST, DSSI and LADSPA has been removed for simplicity, but it could be re-enabled in the future if we have good reasons for doing so.